Second courses are the basis of every family’s diet. There are hundreds and thousands of such home cooking options in every kitchen in the world. Meat, vegetable, cereal and mixed with herbs and sauces, cooked from a steamer, oven, slow cooker, and just from the stove.
Delicious recipes for second courses in a hurry or for a festive table are infinitely diverse. Simple recipes with photos will help even novice cooks in cooking.
The second course to the table is traditionally served after the soup – in other words, the main ones are the “second” dishes that are familiar to us, which are the central element of the meal. Most often, the main second course is prepared from meat, poultry, fish and seafood, to which cooked or raw vegetables, legumes, cereals, pasta and mushrooms are necessarily served as a side dish.
Fish or meat main dishes are the most satisfying, nutritious and large in volume. For every day, modern chefs, as a rule, serve simple main dishes that are easy to prepare. Cutlets, meatballs, schnitzels, sausages, cabbage rolls, fried fish or fish in batter, which do not require much time for heat treatment and serving. On the occasion of the solemn events, a festive main dish is being prepared, which should surprise the guests and become the culmination of the banquet. Here, each cook is already trying to show her culinary skills, choosing from the most delicious recipes of the main dishes what suits the tastes of the guests and the budget of the hosts.
Here you will find a rich selection of photo-recipes of main dishes – bean rolls with cheese, white fish meatballs, rabbit in orange marinade, pork stuffed with prunes, chicken with peaches and Scottish eggs. The main dishes prepared according to our recommendations will definitely become the star of the dinner party!
The season of picnics and country gatherings is over, but no one will forbid us to create a barbecue atmosphere at home. The aroma of baked wings from the oven will surely spread to all households! Bonus to them – two sauces. The ratio of mayonnaise / sour cream is relative, you can change it in any direction or even exclude mayonnaise. I recommend cooking sauces just before serving, and not for the future.
The perfect side dish or an independent dish will appeal to everyone at the feast. The most painstaking thing is to cut and distribute evenly. Bake until cooked. Wings and two sauces will be served as a bonus to the potatoes.
Surprise your family and friends by preparing an original, chic side dish of potatoes for the holiday. Cooking potato roses is very simple, the most difficult thing in the process is thinly sliced potatoes. Your potato bouquet will make a splash and decorate any festive table.
Before this recipe, I cooked pancakes in a different way, until two nieces from Belarus came to me. My girls have been living in Belarus for 20 years. That’s why they gave me this recipe. I’ll share it with you. Although of course for sure everyone has their own recipe for this delicious dish, but it doesn’t hurt. Moreover, the recipe for mushroom sauce will serve as an ideal match for him.
Many people prepare cutlets for the New Year’s table, as almost all guests love them very much, but ordinary cutlets sometimes get bored. Pork can be used to make very tasty cutlets with the addition of bulgur. It is known that meat contains a sufficient amount of fat, so it will absorb cereals well. The filling can be made from soft cheese, it will not melt completely.
Pepper stuffed with two varieties of cheese and packed in minced meat with bacon is a fragrant, delicious dish for lunch and dinner. Neat serving will allow you to prepare this dish for the festive table.
If your desktop book is a collection of recipes and you follow it as the letter of the law, then it’s better not to go into this recipe, you can experience a shock for life. But if you are an ordinary person and you happen to have no milk at home, and you want mashed potatoes, then at such a moment, perhaps this recipe will help you out.